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Help...problem converting application....
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From
08/11/2001 17:54:04
Dragan Nedeljkovich
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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08/11/2001 14:50:51
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00579310
Message ID:
00579440
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18
>Hello out there!!!!
>
>To all that have responded in the past....Thank you for your help....
>Now on to new problems....
>
>I have been given the task of updating an application written in foxpro 2.5 for windows, to an updated
>visual version (6 or 7) of foxpro....
>
>one screen keeps giving me a real "hard" time.....the following error occurs:
>
>-->
>error loading file: record number 8. imgImage47 . color source : expression
>evaluated to an illegal value.

The converter is below what could have been achieved. You better find the source (in the xsource directory on your installation disk) and patch it to ignore the color* fields in the .scx - you don't want the DOS/xBase style colors anyway. Actually, the forms which have those GR, W* and similar colors seem to come from a conversion from a DOS version, and should not have been used in a FPW version at all. They would look very un-Windows anyway, so you may be better off not converting those colors at all.

Besides, I'd rather go with tweaks to Alejandro Sosa's converter (file #9450) - FPW wasn't too different from FPD, you'd only have to take care of decimal foxels (which will replace DOS character coordinates). VFP's converter is giving you Read emulation in forms, and Alejandro's one gives you real VFP forms.

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